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Thomas J. Kent Jr., a Berkeley planner, says that "the radical experiment that began in the U.S. 50 years ago in local self-government has run out in the biggest cities." No doubt with some exaggeration, he holds that all cities with populations of a million or more are "too large to be manageable as democratic self-governments." A somewhat similar theme was sounded by Leonardo...
...Democratic ticket, refusing to compromise his single-minded opposition to the Viet Nam conflict. Party regulars are supporting him lukewarmly if at all. Despite a loyal army of 25,000 youthful McCarthyite volunteers, O'Dwyer seems certain to furnish liberal Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, 64, with his biggest majority in a 22-year string of victories...
Wayne Morse himself is the biggest issue. In four Senate terms, Morse has infuriated just about everybody in some ways, charmed them in others. A corrosive critic of the Viet Nam war, he nevertheless is on cordial terms with L.B.J...
...practice in auto-damage cases, charged that the A.I.A. members merely wanted "to get the Government off their backs." Another vocal critic of the A.I.A. recommendation was Vestal Lemmon, president of the rival National Association of Independent Insurers, whose 480 affiliates (including State Farm Mutual and Allstate, the two biggest auto insurers) write more than half of U.S. auto-insurance policies. Lemmon raised serious doubts as to whether the A.I.A. plan would actually reduce premium rates, also criticized the proposal to eliminate pain-and-suffering payments. "There is," he insisted, "no evidence that the American motoring public wants such...
...plan, based on a 15-month study of insurance claims in 11,000 auto accidents, was aimed at two of the policyholders' biggest headaches: soaring premium rates and slow payment of claims. It was advanced at a time when the auto-insurance industry has come under the scrutiny of Congressional investigators and the Department of Transportation. Auto insurance is also the subject of a reform movement at more local levels, where most of the interest centers on a plan, devised by Law Professors Robert Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois, that...